Activities at Hollyfields Care Home
Our Activities programme is formulated using resident requests and feedback from resident meetings. Residents are involved in planning the programme with things they they would like to do throughout the year. There is a mixture of activities that take place including both group and 1-1 engagement. Residents at Hollyfields particularly enjoy movement to music activities enabling them to increase their level of physical abilities and have fun at the same time, whilst others enjoy musical singalongs and food based activities throughout the week.
We have a mini bus that enables us to reconnect our residents with their community in ways that suite themselves as individuals. This can be achieved by visiting local farms, Georgian towns, local attractions and even the local public house for lunch with friends. Hollyfields have a great relationship with their local community and have visits from local organisations such as The Wyre Community Land Trust and are currently undertaking a 12 week funded project from Arts Etc. Residents at Hollyfields enjoy Pet Therapy visits from their pet rabbit 'Thumper' and like to help clean and feed him daily. Relatives can be encouraged to join us for activities and again are very supportive with delivering theme days and fundraising events within the home.
Kaylee White
Hi, my name is Kaylee and I joined the Hollyfields care team in February 2021. I love getting to know our residents and I'm extremely passionate about their continued wellbeing and life enrichment through tailored activities. I became part of the Activities team to develop more in this area and expand the type of fulfilling activities and events we provide.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Hollyfields Care Home
Happy Birthday 'Mavis'
Today we celebrated Mavis's Birthday, she loved her gifts and got to enjoy a slice of cake with her fellow residents. Thank you to Head Chef Sarah for making such a beautiful cake.
Monthly Pudding Club - June
Today we held our monthly pudding club. Residents and family members enjoyed tucking into a pudding or two made by Head chef Sarah and Chef Thomas. We also had a visit from Skye and her baby Elijah, everybody had a smile on their faces seeing this perfect little pudding!
Resident Pat also celebrated her Birthday this morning with her husband Alan. Pat loved all her gifts and beautiful flowers she received. She got to blow her candle out whilst everyone sang Happy Birthday!
Pooches on Parade
Our summer dog show was a huge success and our residents loved meeting everyone’s pooches. Thank you to those who bought your furry friends along! It means so much to us as a team to see so many warm faces all taking time out of their day to come and join in our activities and sit and chat with both staff and residents.
Obviously the dogs were the main attraction today and I think they enjoyed the fuss just as much as we enjoying giving them! They all did so well!
Blue Knight Bikers!
Our residents and staff have had such amazing day today! A massive thank you goes out to The Blue Knights, who took time out of their day to visit our residents. It was so heart warming to see the residents clap and wave as they arrived.
The Blue Knights are a group of ex/retired police and prison officers. The warmth they showed our residents was beyond words. Our residents loved to chat about their own experiences on motorbikes, both in their youth and adulthood.
Even Derek came out to say hi and was super impressed with the bikes.
Cooling Ice Creams
We've been enjoying the summer weather, with sun hats on our wonderful residents enjoyed a sweet Friday afternoon treat that put smiles on everyone’s faces, there's nothing better than a cooling ice cream in this rather warm weather.
Get Barchester Moving!
As part of the fun this week to raise money for the foundation fund we organised a tea dance. Many of our residents have limited mobility but still have the ability to join in. Proving that they still have the moves today’s Tea Dance was a huge success and enjoyed by all!
Our lovely resident Mavis was a dancer from a child, we could really see her memories being bought back to life. She also enjoyed sharing her memories and experiences with the lovely Camille who provided today’s activity. So many smiles!
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
